Dredge James Editor (2 results)

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Letterhead in black and red ink. In fair condition, aged and worn, with creasing at head. A sensitive letter of condolence, beginning: 'Dear Willy | I was so shocked to hear on Thursday of the great loss you have sustained, and I hesitated to write to you, for letters of condolence are such empty useless things. But on the other hand I dont want you to suppose that I feel indifferent to anything that touches you so closely & deeply. We have been such sympathetic friends for so long, that tho I did not know your father, he too seemed almost like an old friend.' The letter concludes with a rumination on mortality, Dredge finding sympathy 'not wholly useless but [] a poor thing in the presence of death'. Note: This letter derives from a collection of letters of condolence to the Forbes family on the death of William Forbes, father of Stanhope Forbes, founder of the Newlyn School of Art whose brother was "William".

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Mammoth technical & historic study of electrical lighting, mostly from the pages of the British journal "Engineering."; revised and amended. Includes information on basic electricity, voltaic arcs, mechanical production of electricity, generators in theory & practice, conductors, carbons, arc lamps, the Jablochkoff Candle, incandescence-arc lamps, incandescent lamps, abstracts of patents; electrical measurement, standard works on electricity, photometry, the human eye, dynamometers, testing installations, recent dynamos & lamps. Volume one is undated, but circa 1882. Hardcover, two giant volumes bound in full maroon cloth, gilt titling. Professionally rebacked, original spines laid down, general wear & scuffing, rubbing, nicks, frayed corners & edges; new endsheets minor tanning to pages, ink name on flyleaf of volume two, damage (short tears, tanning, chips) to a few page edges. Text clean; xx, 693, cxc; xv, blank, 455, cccxciv; xiii pages; indices, figures. (The large roman-numbered sections in each volume are the patent abstract sections.) Size: Large Quarto.